WW2 Normandy Fallen - Harold Lindsay, 17th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron

1st Lieutenant Harold Lindsay served in a mechanized cavalry unit in Normandy.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51948474/harold-william-lindsay
http://yeide.net/World_War_II_History/Steeds_of_Steel_Photos.html#6 

Harold William Lindsay never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.

If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WW2 fallen, Can you help write some stories? It's a big project. The more help, the better.  Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org. This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War 2 fallen in one free-to-access central database. We are going to need a lot of volunteers. Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.

Harold was born on June 3, 1920 in Logan, Utah. His parents William and Venice were born in New Zealand and Utah, respectively. His father worked as a public school teacher first in Utah and then in Illinois. By 1940 the family had moved to Tucson, Arizona where William was a junior college professor. Harold had one younger sister. William graduated from the University of Arizona in 1942 with a major in agricultural economics. He married Winifred Whiting in May 1942. They had one daughter.

He enlisted in the army in 1942. Harold became a first lieutenant in the 17th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. Lt. Lindsay arrived in England in February 1944. His squadron was disembarked on Utah Beach on July 15, 1944. Units like this were equipped with light tanks, armored cars, and jeeps. They performed scouting duties, and provided an extra punch to infantry units. Lt. Lindsay was killed in action ten days later on July 25, 1944, the launch date for Operation Cobra to break out of Normandy.

His grave is at Evergreen Memorial Park in Tucson, Arizona. I don't know what happened to his widow or daughter.

Thank you Lt. Lindsay for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Harold.

This is one of the final 100 stories (92) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75 anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit www.storiesbehindthestars.org to learn more. We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories.


Last year on this date I profiled P-47 pilot Michael Kinick. You can read about Michael here.

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